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Show SENATOR MORGAN'S CAREER. More Than Anyone Else Responsible Tor Nicaraguan Canal. (Denver Post.) Washington. Many "years ago, when John C. Calhoun was the apostle of the cotton states and preaching a doctrine which, if not the germ, was the baby plant of one of the most tremendous revolutions rev-olutions and one of the most gigantic wars in the history of man, he visited Alabama, where he found two ardent young disciples one William ,. Yancev, the other John T. Morgan. The first was. perhaps, the most brilliant public man ot his day, a greater Bryan as a party leader, lead-er, and even more loved and trusted bv the great nulllfier than Hevne, or Mc-Duffe Mc-Duffe or Jefferson Davis. He died heading head-ing a faction in the revolutionary government- hiic Plnnnonpo tiarl ,r,lriKlA,l so great potency to create. Morgan went to the field and bore himself him-self h stout soldier. Later he helped to rehabilitate the south that he had fought for so gallantly and loved so devotedly, and for morp than two score years he has been "an ambassador from the sovereign state of Alabama in the senate of the United States," to employ his own definition. defi-nition. He has been a .very conspicuous member of that body, a pillar of American Amer-ican citizenship, an exemplar of American statesmanship. Alabama has been represented repre-sented in the senate by King. Pickens, the Clays, Fitzpatrick, Clemens, Houston and Pugh. It is only candor to say tfiat all of them dwarf before the name of John T. Morgan. The name of John T. Morgan will ever be as closely associated with the enterprise enter-prise to construct an isthmian canal, connecting con-necting the two great oceans, as the name of Clinton is with the Erie canal, or the name of Benton is with the Pacific railroads. rail-roads. It was in 1877 that Morgan first entered the senate. Allison, Jones of Nevada and Cockrell were there before him. Stewart had been there before him, and Hoar came in with him. A man of unusual ability, he has the strength and the character char-acter that tenacity and indomitable courage give to the public servant. While-Hoar While-Hoar was reading Chaucer, while Turpie was reading Plato, while Ingalls was reading Victor Hugo, whilp Thurston was reading Montaigne, while Vest was reading read-ing Dickens, while Lodge was reading John Q. Adams, while David B. Hill was reading the newspapers while these were so eneaced. Morean was rpadine the messages of the presidents of the United States, the treaties ratified by the United States senate, and musty documents from which even industry would shrink. Tn hi cross-examination of C. P. Huntington, who swore he had labored fourteen hours a day devising schemes to promote the Pacific roads, Morgan declared that ho worked eighteen hours every day. No one who knew him doubted the statement. There never was a more intrepid man. mentally, morally and physically, and these are qualities as essential to the great debater as great intellect and eloquent elo-quent tongue. Clay and Calhoun made the war of 1812. Calhoun and Douglas made the war with Mexico. And John T. Morgan, Mor-gan, more than any other man, made the war with Spain. All the others only echoed him. He found the facts and the precedents and preached against Spain as Cato preaehpd against Car-thaee Car-thaee Spain in America. Wherever and whenever mighty work is to be performed, the instruments are there fashioned by destiny for the labor. Elizabeth of England, William of Orange and Henry of Navarre curbed the power of Spain and gave a mortal blow to n dominion that was not fit to be. Hampden Hamp-den and Cromwell throttled heredltary absolutism in England. Mlrabeau. Dan-ton Dan-ton and Robespierre obliterated old France. Henry and Jefferson lighted the eternal fires of liberty in our land, and Washington secured what they proclaimed. pro-claimed. Lincoln and Grant crushed the (patriarchal system of. our south and brought that section and that people un- j der the dominion of the ideas of the age. And when the Pacific railroads were to be constructed, men appeared to do it. One bleak winter night in northern California Cali-fornia four obscure men met in a hardware hard-ware store in Sacramento. It was not the tailors of Tooley 'street, though their undertaking appeared as extravagant as the proclamation of that famous convocation. convo-cation. They determined to construct a railroad to connect the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean. Seeminglv 'they could not raise SlOO.OiH). They did raise Jl .OOO.OOO.OuO. They built the road. These four men were C. P. Huntington. Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins each the complement of the others, or rather the first was the complement of the last three, and they the complement of him. Some imaginative imagina-tive writer said of Dumas' masterniece that Athos was the heart, Aramis tha mind. D'Artagnan the hand and Porthos the muscle of that immortal conception. Huntington was Athos. Aramis and D'Artagnan. He got the money; got the subsidies; he interested the capitalists; he took care o legislation at Washington. Washing-ton. Stanford managed the political and judicial end in California. Crocker took care of the construction. Hopkins knew the books. The work was done. It was discovered that these three men made monev out of the enterprise. There was investigation after investigation, and it fell to the lot of Morgan to crons-ex-amlne Huntington. Morgan undertook to ascertain how much the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific had cost. Huntington Hunt-ington was determined that Morgan should never obtain that information. The cross-examination covered a yeriod of weeks. It was during that battle royal between them that Huntington said he had spent over $2,000,000 teaching congress its business. Tilden's conduct of the Burdell-Cun-ningham case; Fullerton's cross-examination of Henry Ward Beecher and Morgan's Mor-gan's cross-examination of Huntington shouid be studied by every lawyer. Greek met Greek. If the poll of 100 of America's very great men was called today the name of O P. Huntington would be on the list, and it his dream is realized John T. Morgan's name will be there, too, and above even Huntington's. |